dobs

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by dobs 9mo ago
> > #1 is doable but would destroy our ability to combat fraud. "Here's how not to get banned next time" is not an email anyone in this space would consider sending. > Just imagine laws would work that way. This is h
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by dobs 3y ago
But most people also aren't draining their battery every day. I live in Toronto, own a Kona EV, and am lucky enough to have a garage. I've literally never needed anything more than 120V except when going on >300km car trips. An
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by dobs 3y ago
Or decline in product offering relative to the competition. In Canada at least Netflix's library seems to have been gutted with a ton of their non-original content moving to Prime, Disney+, etc. And even a bunch of their own formerly-e
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by dobs 3y ago
> If you are worried about safety, ride your e-bike/bike in the middle of the lane. I'm the sort of person who "takes the lane" when necessary but it doesn't work great in practice: Many drivers will aggressively
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by dobs 3y ago
Part of the complexity of moderating on Reddit vs. moderating on Facebook is Reddit's open-by-default nature and limited control provided to moderators. For example: Optionally requiring a questionnaire before being able to post to a F
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by dobs 4y ago
There are a few bank-to-bank mechanisms (ACH, wire transfers) but they're slow (often multiple business days) and often have fees associated with them ($20+ for wires). The lack of good transfer mechanisms is what has led to a prolifer
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by dobs 4y ago
It might be worth giving the Apple Store or online support another shot. I was in basically the exact same position a month ago (pros bought launch week, very out of warranty, known crackling issue) and they replaced the ear pieces (but not
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by dobs 7y ago
Probably 50/50 old (but popular) Erlang libraries and newer Elixir libraries. For protocols, we have a not-uncommon use case for which there’s no mature HTTP client. Mint might be an option but it’s new enough that I haven’t evaluated
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by dobs 7y ago
I feel like my experiences are in sharp contrast to many others here. I love Elixir the language but find myself still having to throughly review new libraries to avoid footguns. In particular with "connectors" -- DB drivers, API
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by dobs 7y ago
I'm a meat eater and my partner's a vegetarian. A&W was our go-to fast food hamburger place even before beyond meat burgers as their veggie deluxe burger was already fairly good, though I'd still order a meat burger. Now
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by dobs 8y ago
One service-to-service case where I've found GraphQL extremely useful is report generation. For example, in one case we had around a dozen services with fairly typical REST APIs, a few of which we wanted to pull large inter-related set
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by dobs 9y ago
You might be interested in postgraphql: https://github.com/postgraphql/postgraphql Otherwise it depends on your GraphQL implementation and what DB adapters or ORMs they support. For example, `graphql-ruby` includes a g
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by dobs 9y ago
Gave this a quick shot on my own monolithic app and it cut startup time almost in half. Impressive considering how easy it was to configure! Startup time was one reason we started migrating away from Rails in a previous workplace, between f
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by dobs 10y ago
> In reply to fixermark, there is also nothing stopping you from very complicated queries in REST. What I believe others are getting at is that those complicated queries themselves need to be expressed somehow even within a REST request.
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by dobs 11y ago
Which leaves me wondering why I'd use Typescript over sticking with ES6, especially with tools like Babel making many future features available right now and libraries like React actively making use of them.
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by dobs 11y ago
> The article is terribly condescending towards Reddit's founders and moderators. Quibbling point, but I found the article fairly flattering toward moderators. And as in the article, it's moderators who're often the quicke
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by dobs 12y ago
Someone started creating fake business listings on fake side-streets with the names of major intersections throughout my city about a year ago. So if you searched for directions to something like "Main and 1st" you'd get redi
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by dobs 14y ago
They could just pull the licenses from the OSI's list ( http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical ). And people writing their own licenses contributes to the license proliferation problem, so should be generally discouraged ( http://en.wi